The West’s failure to contend with Putin is both a failure of the imagination and an inability to apply the crudest lessons from the past
. And he’s been able to do it because the West continues to play the role of appeaser. Even in the matter of sanctions – never mind risking the lives of its own soldiers – the West’s response has been both tepid and slow.
Recently, on Echo Moscow, one of the last independent Russian radio stations, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man until he fell afoul of Putin and spent a decade behind bars, described the West’s behaviour this way:Or you can berate him from a distance. When Western leaders and the Western polity care more about the price of totalitarianism than “the price at the pump,” we can have a genuine conversation about safeguarding freedom and democracy and defending the world order.Expand your mind and build your reading list with the Books newsletter.
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